Coop Trading tunes the enterprise application landscape and business Intelligence functions by the help of a co-created new .NET applications environment

"Fujitsu has been an important partner in helping Coop Trading to digitize our business, and in co-creating an integrated IT landscape that supports our ways of working, enabling us to make quality decisions which save time and money."

Coop Trading worked with Fujitsu to transform its application landscape using .NET and a SharePoint platform, making it more transparent and efficient.

Customer

Coop Trading is the sourcing company for Coop in Denmark, Norway, Finland and Sweden, handling joint purchasing, quality assurance and design of private label and fruit and vegetables, as well as negotiating indirect goods and services spend, and branded goods contracts. It has strong roots in the values that characterize the owner organizations, believing that more can be accomplished collectively than individually. The company buys for more than 4,600 stores and 9 million members in the Nordic countries and its goal is to become the most efficient sourcing company for its partners.

Challenge

Coop Trading deals with thousands of products, each of which has attached data, however this data existed in multiple locations and spreadsheets. When regular changes occurred, it required significant manual intervention to avoid possible human error and poor data quality.

Solution

Coop Trading described the desired enterprise architecture and worked with long term technology partner, Fujitsu, to reshape its application landscape by creating scripts and .NET applications that could extract precious data automatically from multiple existing applications and spreadsheets.

Benefit

Business Intelligence enables smarter decision making

Digitized data enables Coop Trading to deliver value to its partners

Data visibility ensures EU legislation compliance

Faster time to market for new products makes Coop Trading more competitive

Access to accurate re-usable data at the touch of a button improves productivity